Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corpett of Corporate Report.com.

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We've got that suspicious story. Plus, bat boxes beat the bad guys. But first, the meteorological

question, what is cloud seeding? And did it play any role in the Dubai floods? The Columbia

Broadcasting System asking the question and talking about stranded airline

passengers and a cat submerged in floodwaters clinging to a corridor handle became notable

moments this week in Dubai as the normally arid city was inundated with historical levels

of rain. Claims have gone viral that the deluge was brought about by cloud seeding.

It was those conspiracy theorists on the Internet, I bet.

A technique that aims to increase precipitation that is heavily utilized in the United Arab Emirates.

But is it really to blame?

Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, L.A., said that getting to the bottom of the record-shattering extreme rainfall requires

breaking down the science behind the event and the technique.

There's currently a disconnect in the online discourse between the kind of human activities

that likely did affect it, greenhouse warming, versus those which have actually been the focus

of online conversation thus far, cloud seating, and what this means for how we collectively understand our ability to actively affect

the weather on different spatial and temporal scales, he said in an emailed statement.

Did cloud seeding play a role?

Likely no.

How about climate change?

Likely yes, exclamation mark. And the other corporate experts they asked

all agreed as well. Andrew Khrushchecks, senior researcher at Columbia Climate School, told CBS

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